Présentation de l'éditeur
Preface IT will be obvious to the reader that this book affects neither the dignity of history nor the authority of political instruction. The causes which precipitated the conflict between the sections and the momentous events which attended the struggle have been recounted by writers competent to the task. But descriptions of battles and civil convulsions do not exhibit the full condition of the South in the crisis. To complete the picture, social characteristics and incidents of private life are indispensable lineaments. It occurs to the author that a plain and unambitious narrative of her recollections of Washington society during the calm which preceded the storm, and of Virginia under the afflictions and sorrows of the fratricidal strife, will not be without interest in the retrospect of that memorable era. The present volume recalls that era in the aspect in which it appeared to a woman rather than as it appeared to a statesman or a philosopher. ROGER A. PRYOR.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Published in 1904, these are the memoirs of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, who was the wife of once Confederate General Roger Pryor. Includes her time in Washington during the 1850s and memories of the War Between the States. Includes an interesting look into everyday life off the battlefield in the Southern states.
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